[p9idf]

The Hurd authors might find your part-time projects just as sad and pathetic as you find theirs. There's not much I can say beyond that, since you've based your judgement on vague and wishy-washy concepts like going somewhere, being "vaguely competitive", and keeping up. It's no business of yours to criticize the direction of a project you have no involvement or stake in, especially when you can't articulate what direction you'd prefer.

[mindstab]

The problem is HURD isn't positioned as a part time product, it's positioned as a replacement to Linux, which is inferior technically, just has more hands on deck right now. I'm not so scornful of the many many many other OS projects out there because they don't generally act like they are better than all that exists and going to naturally supplant it if they can just find the right microkernel... Also very few "side projectS" have been going on for like 25 years... So again my personal side projects are hard to compare to an organization's quarter century effort.

Direction I'd prefer? Working on modern hardware and taking full advantage of it! Was that not clear? That's the whole point. They spend all their time on on designing and redesigning archetecture and their software is now getting less relevant on real hardware. Mostly only makes sense now to run as a VM. Which is probably not what they want for the OS that is supposed to replace Linux....

[greenlakejake]

My sad and pathetic part-time projects don't drag on for 25 years. :)